I was working for a major oil company and the Mercury was used in certain control valves that regulated the fluid levels in separators. Separators are used to as the implies separate the wellhead fluids. Gas out the top, oil out of the oil bucket and water out of the bottom. The trigger to operate the valve floats on that Mercury and when the level of water in the seperator rises to a high level it sends a pnuematic signal to open a valve to release the water or oil . Other uses were Barton meters to measure gas flow
i have a great deal of respect for this individual. I hope to be able shake his hand one day and thank him for teaching me to survive. my Mobile scrap fortress is almost complete and will be heading south when snow starts flying here in Michigan. I started my own you tube channel a month ago to document my journey south from state to state buying and selling scrap.
Since you told me about Steve finding happiness and peace, mid state. It feels kind a lonely in the workshop especially at night. Maybe not for you as you have Mr 357 to keep you company. Definitely miss the banter you to have. He should start a channel project shop Steve and get him on the lives at least he will be apart of the community again Stay safe brother regards from England
We use to play with it when i was a kid. Drop it on the floor and it went in to a thousand pieces. We would get it out of Thermometers . That was 60 years ago. Im 70 now and been doing scrap metal for 11 years since i retired. U Call We Haul is my business name.
Mercury- When I was in 7th grade in the late 60’s, our science teacher had a flat ~ 10x12” metal tray with at least 1” of mercury in it. As a science demonstration he floated metal wrenches in it. He allowed us to look and poke at the floating objects. ……Certainly things have changed.
The transformers cracking is always so satisfying 😂🤙…as for the merc, ‘s a super neat metal and in all honesty, is not nearly as toxic to come into quick physical contact with as a lot of us were raised to believe..that said, I’m not sure that breaking a bulb that may use an excited form of sodium under water would be the greatest idea lol..unless one likes to see water explode. I’m no expert, can’t tell if these are HPS or MH bulbs, but I do know that the MH bulbs are generally higher in merc content. These two were the gold standards (still are in a lot of places) for growing pot indoors for the better part of the last century..lot of people still don’t like LED in that regard..so there should still be plenty to scrap out for some time yet 😂😂..LED grow lights are sorely disappointing to scrap out in comparison. Little micro transformers.
Wow man what a workout😮 I would have sissied out and used the grinder on some of those transformers or I would have smashed my thumb ten times,like that whole scene was giving me flashbacks to smashing my finger using log splitter last week. I really had no idea the last guy on the line could be so brutal it always looked real easy. I don’t want to be the one to say this but it needs to be said,the scrap table never looked so piled up with microscrap when Steve was around he was all about keeping that table spotless,I’m not saying I don’t like the look I love scrap,in big piles even more so. I meant to tell you,you should have scrappped out that bike by the methhead dumpster last week could have been AL. Gotta damn seat belt ticket tonight going dumpster diving,I had just left these old people I give eggs and tomatoes to and there he was I had just thought of my seatbelt ten seconds earlier,25$😢 he was real cool though we shot the shit for 15 mins about illegals,hyperinflation,poor guy had variable rate mortgage he’s getting killed and shtf. Love your content man
Sigh so much stuff was said in the first 15 minutes... leds vs other lamps - you can have very long lasting leds, companies just overdrive them and you end up with the tiny wires that connect the actual diode to the package breaking due to heating and cooling cycles. The phosphorus on top of the diode can also degrade over time. LEDs have benefit of higher CRI, color reproduction, you get a much higher spectrum versus sodium and other non-incandescent solutions, with with you get basically very poor or no color reproduction. Downside is much higher light pollution. With a long enough wire you can pick energy out of air, but that's science ... you have AM radios, you have cellphone towers, you have high voltage power lines that radiate energy around the wires (put a long wire near the high voltage wires and you'll get free energy) ... there's energy all around you. Doesn't mean it's in enough power levels to do useful stuff with it. Mercury has a lot of uses in explosives (see mercury fulminate) , some mercury compounds are used for x-ray and gamma detection, they were often used in motion sensitive triggers for IEDs and other stuff... and it's also quite bad for humans, producing nerve damage and kidney damage in big quantities... good enough reasons to not have it around and have people play with it.
i heard about a guy who made a fancy antenna to gather electricity from the air and it worked. but he was arrested for stealing electricity from the grid because it just forms a wireless connection to the power lines through the interference that all electrical lines put off.
@@ProjectShopFl If you haven't already, look up Jason at Mt Baker Metals and Mining. He has some good equipment that may help you. He had a recent video separating copper from stators.
@@ProjectShopFl Check out Jason at Mt. Baker Mining and Metals, if you haven't already. He has some equipment that can separate stators and anything that's mixed copper and steel up to 20lbs. May be worth checking out. Peace!
Don't fuck with the mercury, it's way too toxic. Not worth your health. I'd like to see you keep making videos. You have to have a permit to recover mercury in Florida.... And businesses that generate more than 10 lamps per month must dispose of them at a hazardous waste facility, Florida Law. Hate to see your business get messed with because you didn't know. Great video as always, those ballasts are fricking huge.... They have an auction here in Az, saw some Jaws come up for auction!
The next time you make a Melt video, Use Transformer #2 copper wire for your melt & pour instead of the clean #1 copper. No use losing $$ on wasting your high dollar copper when #2 copper wire will give you a just as nice copper bar. The same goes for making your Aluminum bars, Melt that cruddy cast aluminum or the Transformer aluminum wire instead of that clean aluminum wire.
the red stuff the Germans used it for space time continuum lol but any way with enuf magnetic force you could convert the flow to electricity from static charge and friction and the anti gravity property's to boot that is how the ufo works lol a magnetic murcrey generator
Aparentally Gravity is just a theory the attraction to earth is electrostatics. MIT made a drone that has no moving parts all they did is reverse the static charge of the drone and it flys. lol Check it out it's pretty cool.
@@ProjectShopFl gravity is a product of magnetic central rotation it all comes back to magnetic wave force free energy and all if you take the wave to boost is self from the rotation it caused you would have a loop or an universe
@@ProjectShopFl if a man would just have kept it simple just think of how fare we would have been just think of the ocean on wave spawns the next and as time passes it grows as it leaves its origin on pebble dropped in the center is felt as a tsunami around its borders where does all that energy come from is it displacement
I was working for a major oil company and the Mercury was used in certain control valves that regulated the fluid levels in separators. Separators are used to as the implies separate the wellhead fluids. Gas out the top, oil out of the oil bucket and water out of the bottom. The trigger to operate the valve floats on that Mercury and when the level of water in the seperator rises to a high level it sends a pnuematic signal to open a valve to release the water or oil . Other uses were Barton meters to measure gas flow
Thats cool thanks for sharing.
i have a great deal of respect for this individual. I hope to be able shake his hand one day and thank him for teaching me to survive. my Mobile scrap fortress is almost complete and will be heading south when snow starts flying here in Michigan. I started my own you tube channel a month ago to document my journey south from state to state buying and selling scrap.
Thanks, Just gave you a sub. Good luck.
@ProjectShopFl A subscription from the copper king himself. Seriously.. thank you.
Love the videos , I have been binge watching. You do so much work in a short period of time . I need some of your energy Awesome work
Thank you, For me it seems like I never get enough done. lol
Since you told me about Steve finding happiness and peace, mid state. It feels kind a lonely in the workshop especially at night. Maybe not for you as you have Mr 357 to keep you company. Definitely miss the banter you to have. He should start a channel project shop Steve and get him on the lives at least he will be apart of the community again Stay safe brother regards from England
Thanks, He is coming to palm beach around thew 20th I will try and get him on camera.
Wow what a perfect joob I hope that you are proud off your work
Thanks, I am. 👍
The jaw is really cool, viewing from County Sligo Ireland 🇮🇪 🇺🇦🤠🚲📷✍
Thanks!
Tesla found free power from the ground and how to transmit it through the air. Check out his story. Great video. Thank you for sharing.👍
I've looked in to Tesla and if you go deep you will find he might have repurposed tea that was already here.
Great video the things you learn Great job
Thanks!
solid content well shot
Thanks!
another great video from you and as far as the mercuy i dont know but its better to let ones that know mess with it thanks for shareing
Thanks 👍
Very nice pile or transformers. Nice score man!
Thank you!
Never thought of scraping lights got some heavy cast alum led boards gave 50cents a pound worked out to $75 a hour thanks for your videos and ideas
That's awesome! 👍
Chuck the shears in the vice
I do that all the time but the lights were too heavy to handle with 1 hand.
Contradiction within 7 minutes regarding the jaws of scrap, "i miss my points" and "Oh...it does'nt fit" ha ha.
I love this shit.
😂😂😂😂
We use to play with it when i was a kid. Drop it on the floor and it went in to a thousand pieces. We would get it out of Thermometers . That was 60 years ago. Im 70 now and been doing scrap metal for 11 years since i retired. U Call We Haul is my business name.
Nice! 👍
With that jaw you could be chief of the volunteer fire department.
I do have the jacket and helmet to go with it, but the helmet says Pyro Chief on it. lol
Mercury- When I was in 7th grade in the late 60’s, our science teacher had a flat ~ 10x12” metal tray with at least 1” of mercury in it. As a science demonstration he floated metal wrenches in it. He allowed us to look and poke at the floating objects. ……Certainly things have changed.
Wow! Thats awesome! lol I had a small glass jar of it from old thermostat and it was way heavier than you would think.
love the content
Thanks!
Mike Calhoun with U Call We Haul From Newnan Georgia. Like your videos
Thank you! 👍
The transformers cracking is always so satisfying 😂🤙…as for the merc, ‘s a super neat metal and in all honesty, is not nearly as toxic to come into quick physical contact with as a lot of us were raised to believe..that said, I’m not sure that breaking a bulb that may use an excited form of sodium under water would be the greatest idea lol..unless one likes to see water explode. I’m no expert, can’t tell if these are HPS or MH bulbs, but I do know that the MH bulbs are generally higher in merc content. These two were the gold standards (still are in a lot of places) for growing pot indoors for the better part of the last century..lot of people still don’t like LED in that regard..so there should still be plenty to scrap out for some time yet 😂😂..LED grow lights are sorely disappointing to scrap out in comparison. Little micro transformers.
Thanks for the info and warning on the sodium bulbs.
Wow man what a workout😮 I would have sissied out and used the grinder on some of those transformers or I would have smashed my thumb ten times,like that whole scene was giving me flashbacks to smashing my finger using log splitter last week. I really had no idea the last guy on the line could be so brutal it always looked real easy. I don’t want to be the one to say this but it needs to be said,the scrap table never looked so piled up with microscrap when Steve was around he was all about keeping that table spotless,I’m not saying I don’t like the look I love scrap,in big piles even more so. I meant to tell you,you should have scrappped out that bike by the methhead dumpster last week could have been AL. Gotta damn seat belt ticket tonight going dumpster diving,I had just left these old people I give eggs and tomatoes to and there he was I had just thought of my seatbelt ten seconds earlier,25$😢 he was real cool though we shot the shit for 15 mins about illegals,hyperinflation,poor guy had variable rate mortgage he’s getting killed and shtf. Love your content man
Thanks, I will be clearing the scrap table I just got busy with other things that consumed a lot of my time. Sucks about the ticket.
Sigh so much stuff was said in the first 15 minutes... leds vs other lamps - you can have very long lasting leds, companies just overdrive them and you end up with the tiny wires that connect the actual diode to the package breaking due to heating and cooling cycles. The phosphorus on top of the diode can also degrade over time. LEDs have benefit of higher CRI, color reproduction, you get a much higher spectrum versus sodium and other non-incandescent solutions, with with you get basically very poor or no color reproduction. Downside is much higher light pollution.
With a long enough wire you can pick energy out of air, but that's science ... you have AM radios, you have cellphone towers, you have high voltage power lines that radiate energy around the wires (put a long wire near the high voltage wires and you'll get free energy) ... there's energy all around you. Doesn't mean it's in enough power levels to do useful stuff with it.
Mercury has a lot of uses in explosives (see mercury fulminate) , some mercury compounds are used for x-ray and gamma detection, they were often used in motion sensitive triggers for IEDs and other stuff... and it's also quite bad for humans, producing nerve damage and kidney damage in big quantities... good enough reasons to not have it around and have people play with it.
Thanks for the info.
i heard about a guy who made a fancy antenna to gather electricity from the air and it worked. but he was arrested for stealing electricity from the grid because it just forms a wireless connection to the power lines through the interference that all electrical lines put off.
Interesting I'd like to know more about this. lol
@@ProjectShopFl me too lol
Derek I think you put a few copper in the wrong bucket 🪣 🤔 fantastic video tho xx
I always check the AL bucket just incase that happens especially when someone else is running the 2nd press.
Some bulbs aren't merc but sodium soo....no water
Thanks for the warning, It might make for a good video. 😂😂😂
Mercury does attract gold.. used as a collection metal then burnt off and leaves tge gold behind
Thanks for the info.
Should we clean the work bench, or just build a new one. I am happy you got those transformers
😂😂😂 I will be cleaning it today. lol
Lol lil piece of sheet saw the hammer coming and jumped off
😂😂😂
mercury should always be kept in water so its never exposed and giving off its vapours
Thanks for the info.
A strange thought just entered my mind... you use the jaws of life to split stators. Wonder if that could be a thing?
I've already tried it it did not like it it just crushed it and the 2nd time I tried it just maxed out the jaw.
@@ProjectShopFl If you haven't already, look up Jason at Mt Baker Metals and Mining. He has some good equipment that may help you. He had a recent video separating copper from stators.
@@ProjectShopFl Check out Jason at Mt. Baker Mining and Metals, if you haven't already. He has some equipment that can separate stators and anything that's mixed copper and steel up to 20lbs. May be worth checking out. Peace!
What do you think about buying a Granulator for the wire stripping.
I have one I need to repair the shaft.
Don't fuck with the mercury, it's way too toxic. Not worth your health. I'd like to see you keep making videos. You have to have a permit to recover mercury in Florida.... And businesses that generate more than 10 lamps per month must dispose of them at a hazardous waste facility, Florida Law. Hate to see your business get messed with because you didn't know. Great video as always, those ballasts are fricking huge.... They have an auction here in Az, saw some Jaws come up for auction!
I know all about the laws with the lamps.
The next time you make a Melt video, Use Transformer #2 copper wire for your melt & pour instead of the clean #1 copper. No use losing $$ on wasting your high dollar copper when #2 copper wire will give you a just as nice copper bar. The same goes for making your Aluminum bars, Melt that cruddy cast aluminum or the Transformer aluminum wire instead of that clean aluminum wire.
Thanks for the suggestion
No amount of money is worth messing with the Mercury, dispose of them and make money from the other scrap, you can thank me now.
True, but where can you dispose of mercury?- you can’t exactly chuck it on landfill or flush it down the sink!!
Ya I wouldn’t do it unless you have the “right” equipment not worth the risk
Dispose to where?
Thanks for the suggestion
@lioneljohnpilcher204 your local hazardous waste collection
Probably could have smashed those cast aluminum housings with a hammer in a quarter of the time.
Possibly but it would have taken a lot more physical work and I have a healing arm from a pulled muscle
What hydraulic fluid do you use in the pump that u use for the jaw?
I think it's just a basic hydraulic fluid I got at the auto parts store.
This job requires so much work effort. What do you eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
I usually skip breakfast, Pizza for lunch and stake for dinner.
Are those gloves breathable?
Yes it's fabric on the back side.
the red stuff the Germans used it for space time continuum lol but any way with enuf magnetic force you could convert the flow to electricity from static charge and friction and the anti gravity property's to boot that is how the ufo works lol a magnetic murcrey generator
Aparentally Gravity is just a theory the attraction to earth is electrostatics. MIT made a drone that has no moving parts all they did is reverse the static charge of the drone and it flys. lol Check it out it's pretty cool.
@@ProjectShopFl gravity is a product of magnetic central rotation it all comes back to magnetic wave force free energy and all if you take the wave to boost is self from the rotation it caused you would have a loop or an universe
@@ProjectShopFl if a man would just have kept it simple just think of how fare we would have been just think of the ocean on wave spawns the next and as time passes it grows as it leaves its origin on pebble dropped in the center is felt as a tsunami around its borders where does all that energy come from is it displacement
IF you didn't use your brain and build hydrolic power to assist you. POPEYE comes to mind 😊
When in dough beat it out us to be my motto. lol
i wouldn't press your contact in over that break even. in the end having their business is important.
I billed him $300 and he was happy to pay it.